By Associated Press
The U.S. stoppage was first reported by Politico.
Trump met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit last week and had left open the possibility of sending Kyiv more U.S.-made Patriot air defence missile systems, acknowledging they would help the Ukrainian cause.
鈥淭hey do want to have the antimissile missiles, OK, as they call them, the Patriots,鈥 Trump said then. 鈥淎nd we鈥檙e going to see if we can make some available. We need them, too. We鈥檙e supplying them to Israel, and they鈥檙e very effective 鈥 They do want that more than any other thing.鈥
Those comments reflect a change of thinking about providing weapons to Ukraine across the administration in recent months.
In opening remarks at a Senate defence appropriations subcommittee hearing in June, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said he has moved quickly to quash wasteful programs and redirect funding to Trump鈥檚 top objectives.